ALPINE TOWNSHIP -- Above all else, Chris Matthews was a family man, providing for his 2-year-old son and 6-month-old daughter, both of whom were inside a York Creek apartment when their dad was shot to death Friday, relatives said.

And while Donte Matthews struggled to grasp the loss of his older brother, his concern was for his nephew and niece -- what they saw and what they may remember.

"That's messed up, man. I don't know why anybody would do him like that," Matthews said moments after Kent County sheriff's investigators told him brother was dead. "I just wonder where they were, how much they saw.